An English Grammar by J. W. (James Witt) Sewell;W. M. (William Malone) Baskervill
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The adjectives or verbs corresponding to these are either themselves derived from the nouns or are totally different words; as _glad_--_joy_, _hopeful_--_hope_, etc. Exercises. 1. From your reading bring up sentences containing ten common nouns, five proper, five abstract. --NOTE.--Remember that all sentences are to be _selected_ from standard literature. 2. Under what class of nouns would you place (_a_) the names of diseases, as _pneumonia_, _pleurisy_, _catarrh_, _typhus_, _diphtheria_; (_b_) branches of knowledge, as _physics_, _algebra_, _geology_, _mathematics_? 3. Mention collective nouns that will embrace groups of each of the following individual nouns:-- man horse bird fish partridge pupil bee |
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